🔼: [[🧘 Trataka (Fixed Point Gazing)]], [[💡 Meditation Anchor]] ##### Yantras A yantra is a kind of [[💡 Meditation Anchor|meditation anchor]] typically used during [[🧘 Trataka (Fixed Point Gazing)]]. ###### Using Yantras We can print a yantra and place it in a well-illuminated location, or set it to full screen on an 11+ inch screen and turn our brightness all the way up. Place the yantra at a close distance (ideally 1-2 feet) and rest your eyes on the dot at its center. Allow the surrounding square of the yantra fade into the background of your awareness. Certain visual phenomena will unfold, especially if the yantra is well-illuminated. - The brightness of the white will increase. - We will start to see prismatic colors issuing from the boundaries between the light and dark areas of the yantra. - The white region may turn into a pale yellow, followed by blue, dark blue, pink, then violet, due to retinal fatigue. Although your gaze is soft and restful, if your eyes become tired after a few minutes you can close your eyes. This often produces a series of afterimages in the mind’s eye that are the same shape as the yantra with inverse colors. Focus on the dot in the center of the afterimage. Notice how any attempt to grasp these afterimages will cause them to disappear. If your mind is balanced, the afterimages will unfold by spontaneously changing colors for several minutes. When the afterimages no longer appear open your eyes and refocus on the dot in the center of the yantra. Do this for a few minutes until your eyes get tired. Then close your eyes and again focus on the afterimages. You can repeat this cycle as many times as you like. Practicing with other yantras is similar, but different effects and afterimages. ###### Prithvi > “Prithvi is also known as bhumi, which means ‘to be’ or ‘to exist.’ It also means the ground and earth we live upon, which signifies existence.” > – Swami Satyasangananda, Tattwa Shuddhi, p. 70 ![[Prithvi 1.png]] ![[Prithvi 2.png]] ###### The Cosmic Mandala ![[Cosmic Mandala 1.png]] ![[Cosmic Mandala 2.png]] ###### Sri Yantra ![[Sri Yantra.png]] [^1]: